Supporting Grieving Children: A Sacred Calling

Any child old enough to love is old enough to grieve – Alan Wolfelt, PhD

This session explores supporting children whose beloved parent, grandparent, sibling, or pet is critically ill and/or dies. It explores developing a plan for supporting the child/family, accommodations that can be made to offer support, ways to offer the student(s) support following a death, helping classmates understand, when to encourage specialized support/counseling, and exploring available resources.

Lead me, Guide Me: Navigating Grief with Faith

Faith-based presentation. This presentation looks at the grief experience and identifies areas where leaning into our faith and asking God to guide us can help us sustain through our grief journey. Key areas are explored, along with possible action steps that can be taken.

Grief and Hope at the Holidays

This presentation addresses common grief experiences and anxieties as the first holidays after a loved one’s death approach. Strategies for surviving the holidays are shared.

Grief in the Workplace: Supporting Your Teammates

Grief in the workplace is inevitable. Whether it involves the death of an employee or a family member of an employee. Grief can affect work performance. Content includes defining grief and mourning, exploring common responses, strategies for offering support to employees, and recognizing complex grief situations.

The Importance of Balance in Your Life: No Regrets

Work-life balance is an important strategy for long-term life satisfaction. We must understand and recognize its importance and develop strategies to implement it to reduce the regrets we have to live with.

When Someone is Very Ill or Dying: What to Do, Say, and to Avoid

At some point, we will all face losing someone love. It can be challenging to know what to say and how to help. This session will explore what you can do and say that may be helpful. We will also explore what to avoid doing or saying.

Journey Through Grief Toward Hope

Grief is a very individualized, situation-dependent life experience. This training (depending on the length of the program selected) explores:

Definition of grief and mourning

Common grief responses

Strategies for coping with grief, self-care strategies, symptoms of complex grief, and looking ahead with hope.

10 Life Lessons My Dying Patients Have Taught Me

This session explores 10 of the many life lessons my hospice patients taught me when I was privileged to serve as their hospice nurse. These lessons apply to everyone.

Blessed Are Those Who Mourn: Says Who? 

Faith-based presentation: While we often feel alone in grief, God is with us and sustains us as we walk our grief journey. At first glance, we may not see blessings after a loved one dies. However, looking back, we often find blessings that follow these devastating losses.

This session addresses the experiences of military families who have lost a loved one in service, including the challenges of grief, coping with the absence of a deployed or deceased service member, and resources available for bereaved military families.